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RUSS206 A Matter of Life and Death: in the Soviet Era The great Russian writers of the 20th century risked their lives insisting on RUSSIAN (RUSS) absolutes to counter Soviet doctrine. Zamyatin's WE inspired BRAVE NEW RUSS101 Elementary Russian I WORLD and 1984; Bulgakov's MASTER AND MARGARITA remained hidden for This beginning course in Russian teaches basic grammar while providing 27 years; Solzhenitsyn dared to submit IVAN DENISOVICH during Khrushchev's extensive practice in speaking and listening to contemporary Russian. Because of Thaw--each decade has its characteristic masterpiece. (Students who wish to the intensive workload, the student earns 1.5 credits for this course. read excerpts from the course readings in the original Russian should see the Offering: Host instructor to enroll in a 0.5 credit tutorial.) Grading: OPT Offering: Host Credits: 1.50 Grading: OPT Gen Ed Area: HA-REES Credits: 1.00 Prereq: None Gen Ed Area: HA-REES Identical With: REES206, RULE206 RUSS102 Elementary Russian II Prereq: None The course continues to develop basic skills in speaking, writing, and listening to contemporary Russian, as well as the knowledge of basic grammar. Because of RUSS208F Otherness & Belonging (FYS) the intensive workload, the student earns 1.5 credits for this course. One of the many haunting utterances of 's most famous Offering: Host antihero, the Underground , is "I am alone, I thought, and they are Grading: OPT everyone." Like him, the other of this course are outcasts, Credits: 1.50 dissidents, and strangers - jaded office clerks and repressed misanthropes, queer Gen Ed Area: HA-REES activists and "enemies of the state" - who refuse to conform to societal norms, Prereq: RUSS101 disrupt conventions by saying the unsayable, and write and make art from the margins, the realm of undesirables. Focusing mainly on and Eastern RUSS201 Intermediate Russian I Europe, we will analyze representations of otherness and belonging in fiction, This course presents a continued study of Russian grammar with an emphasis non-fiction, and film. We will explore of undesirability through the on a complete analysis of the verb system. Exercises in class develop fluency in thematic prisms of exile and immigration; gender and sexuality; mental illness; speaking and understanding spoken Russian while teaching the rules of Russian prison writing; ethnic difference; religion; and unrequited love. The concept of grammar. undesirability will also be our point of entry for constructing arguments about Offering: Host community, privilege, and a society without outsiders. Grading: OPT Offering: Crosslisting Credits: 1.00 Grading: OPT Gen Ed Area: HA-REES Credits: 1.00 Prereq: (RUSS101 AND RUSS102) Gen Ed Area: HA-REES RUSS202 Intermediate Russian II Identical With: REES208F, RULE208F, WLIT245F This course presents a continued study of Russian grammar with an emphasis Prereq: None on a complete analysis of the verb system. Exercises in class develop fluency in RUSS212 The Short Course: Readings in 20th-Century Fiction speaking and understanding spoken Russian while teaching the rules of Russian Supplementary to RUSS206, this course should ideally be taken concomitantly grammar. with it, since the readings will be excerpts from RUSS206 to be done in Russian. Offering: Host Designed for Russian majors to do advanced work with the texts they read in Grading: OPT RUSS206, the discussion will focus on close stylistic analysis. Credits: 1.00 Offering: Host Gen Ed Area: HA-REES Grading: OPT Prereq: RUSS101 AND RUSS102 AND RUSS201 Credits: 0.50 RUSS205 Murder and Adultery: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and the 19th-Century Gen Ed Area: HA-REES Russian Identical With: REES212 The 19th-century novel is widely regarded as the supreme achievement of Prereq: (RUSS202 AND [RUSS206 or REES206 or RULE206]) . This course will trace its development from Pushkin's elegant, RUSS220 Speak, Memory: The Russian Memoir witty novel in verse, EUGENE ONEGIN, through the grotesque comedy of Gogol, Memoirs offer a chance for individuals to make sense of their relationship to the realist masterpieces of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, with their complex to larger historical forces and allow writers of fiction and to reflect depiction of human psychology and the philosophical struggles of late 19th- on the tensions between biography and the creative process. We will read century society. We will consider the historical background in which the memoirs of prison and of Stalinist terror by Fyodor Dostoevsky and Nadezhda were produced and the tools developed by Russian critical theory, especially the Mandelstam; visions of childhood by Lev Tolstoy, Vladimir Nabokov, and poets Russian formalists and Mikhail Bakhtin, for understanding 19th-century Russian Osip Mandelstam and Marina Tsvetaeva; and works of autobiography by Viktor prose. Shklovsky and Sergey Gandlevsky that create their own worlds of literary Offering: Host experimentation. The course will also consider the theoretical problems of Grading: OPT autobiographical writing. Students will write a memoir of childhood (3-5 pages) Credits: 1.00 to better understand the technical problems faced by Tolstoy in writing about his Gen Ed Area: HA-REES childhood. Students will also write a piece of memoiristic prose, or a parody or Identical With: REES205, RULE205, WLIT241 imitation of one of the writers in the course (minimum 10 pages), as one of their Prereq: None three papers. We will devote one class session to a writing workshop session on the creative project. Offering: Host 2 Russian (RUSS)

Grading: OPT Prereq: None Credits: 1.00 RUSS235 Queer Russia Gen Ed Area: HA-REES Russia is accustomed to playing the role of the "evil empire." The current Identical With: REES220, RULE220, WLIT243 ongoing war in has resurrected the Cold War-era narratives about Russia Prereq: None as a dark, aggressive, and ruthless military power. The notorious legislation of RUSS223 After : Animals, Avatars, Hybrids recent years--whose functions range from barring Americans from adopting During the last two decades of the 20th century, a wide array of Soviet and post- Russian orphans to criminalizing the so-called "gay propaganda"--have further Soviet writers either replaced or merged the traditional human with solidified Russia's reputation as a country with little regard for human rights. another: the animal. Whether featuring a penguin avatar or disillusioned insects; Yet generations of Russian poets, artists, and writers have transformed the a human centipede or a pack of werewolves, these literary works directly and country's systematic oppression and violence into spectacular forms of protest indirectly shed light on the historical context in which they were written: the and self-expression. This course focuses on gender and sexuality in exploring last decade before and the one immediately following the dissolution of the an alternative cultural history of Russia, which highlights its queer legacy from . Keeping in mind this historical and social context, we will analyze the nineteenth century to the present. We will examine poetry, fiction, art, representations of hybridity, violence, sexuality, and (imagined) communities-- memoirs, plays, films, performances, and discursive texts that showcase uniquely all through texts that challenge us to consider what the animal represents and Russian conceptions of marriage, gender relations, gender expression, and how it affects our expectations of . The secondary readings will situate sexual identity. Attention will be paid to the ways in which Russian and Western the animal in a broader philosophical and theoretical framework, and special narratives of queerness align and diverge. In English. No knowledge of Russian is attention will be paid to postmodernism as a movement in literature and art. required or expected. Conducted in English. Offering: Crosslisting Offering: Host Grading: OPT Grading: OPT Credits: 1.00 Credits: 1.00 Gen Ed Area: HA-REES Gen Ed Area: SBS-REES Identical With: REES235, RULE235, FGSS234 Identical With: REES223, RULE223, WLIT256 Prereq: None Prereq: None RUSS240F Reading Stories: Great Short Works from Gogol to Petrushevskaya RUSS224 Performing : From Peter the Great to the Russian (FYS) Revolution This course is designed to help students improve their writing through the This course offers a survey of Russian culture from 1700-1917 through the close reading and analysis of short stories and by Russian masters of perspective of performance studies. Starting with the reign of Peter the Great the form. Students will be asked to bring to each class their ideas on how to and ending on the eve of the revolution, we read some of the seminal works of construct an argument that could be developed into a written interpretation the Russian literary canon, including plays, poems, short stories, and novels. We of the work being discussed. These discussions, along with work on building also consider examples from visual and material culture: paintings, sculptures, logical arguments, recognizing propaganda and disinformation, and polishing and everyday objects. Alongside these primary sources, we discuss theoretical grammar and style, will inform students' own writing (four 5-page papers). We pieces from the field of performance studies in order to expose and reflect will read works from the 19th century to the late 20th century that include on the social and political mechanisms embedded in the shaping of various Tolstoy's novellas of faith, adultery, and facing death; Gogol's surreal comedies forms of "Russianness." The course will explore ever-relevant questions of and urbanistic ; Chekhov's subtle psychological tales; Bunin's reflections belonging, display of power, and ideology, and ask how, why, and by whom from exile on a lost Russia; Bulgakov's sketches of life as a country doctor; and cultural identities are contrived and performed. The course is conducted in Petrushevskaya's modern stories of the tortured lives of women in the late Soviet English. period. Offering: Host Offering: Host Grading: OPT Grading: OPT Credits: 1.00 Credits: 1.00 Gen Ed Area: SBS-REES Gen Ed Area: HA-REES Identical With: REES224, WLIT257, RULE224 Identical With: REES240F, RULE240F, WLIT240F Prereq: None Prereq: None RUSS233 Introduction to Russian and Soviet Cinema RUSS250 Pushkin This course provides an introduction to the history and poetics of Soviet and This seminar is for students who are at or above the third year of language study. Russian cinema. From the avant-garde experimentation of Lev Kuleshov, Sergei We will spend the semester reading EVGENY ONEGIN in the original Russian. Eisenstein, and Dziga Vertov to the masterpieces of Andrei Tarkovsky, Sergei Class discussions will be in Russian to the degree possible; some biographical Parajanov, and Kira Muratova, the course will explore the development of reading will be in English. There will be regular listening assignments as well as Russian film as artistic medium and as national tradition. The discussion and written ones. comparative analyses of different forms and genres, including silent cinema, Offering: Host propaganda films, blockbusters, and auteur cinema, will be situated within the Grading: OPT cultural, political, and aesthetic contexts of the Soviet Union and contemporary Credits: 1.00 Russia. Gen Ed Area: HA-REES Offering: Crosslisting Identical With: REES284 Grading: OPT Prereq: RUSS202 Credits: 1.00 RUSS251 Dostoevsky Gen Ed Area: HA-REES Dostoevsky is widely recognized as one of the world's greatest novelists. His Identical With: REES233, RULE233, FILM333, WLIT255 career begins at the end of Russian , is interrupted by nine years Russian (RUSS) 3

of prison and exile in Siberia, and resumes at the beginning of the age of the 's THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING refracts the Soviet great realist novel. Dostoevsky's major works grapple with the themes of sin and domination of Czechoslovakia through the traumas and love affairs of a quartet crime, the disintegration of the family, and the difficulty of believing in God in a of characters; in Witold Gombrowicz's TRANS-ATLANTYK and Aleksandar world full of evil. Hemon's THE QUESTION OF BRUNO, the main characters find themselves in a Offering: Host foreign land when their home countries (Poland and Yugoslavia, respectively) are Grading: OPT torn apart by war. All the works we will read exemplify the high level of narrative Credits: 1.00 sophistication, in realist, absurdist, and experimental modes, that is a hallmark of Gen Ed Area: HA-REES Central and Eastern European literature. Identical With: REES251, RULE251, WLIT244 Offering: Host Prereq: None Grading: OPT RUSS252 Tolstoy Credits: 1.00 During the 19th century when Tolstoy wrote his novels and stories, literature Gen Ed Area: HA-REES was viewed in Russia as the intelligentsia's primary medium for debating its big Identical With: REES255, RULE255, WLIT259 questions (such as how to resolve the inequalities that had been institutionalized Prereq: None under serfdom, or how to choose between new and old values as Russia RUSS256 The Soviet Century experienced modernization). Writers like Tolstoy and Dostoevsky willingly This course begins and ends with two of the most important dates of the 20th assumed the responsibility to address a broad range of political, historical, century. On November 7, 1917, the Bolshevik party launched a revolution against and philosophical-religious questions in their fiction, and they wrote novels the government of the with the aim of overthrowing not just with radical formulations as well as solutions to these questions. However, the state but capitalism, the economic and social system that defined modern they also viewed literature, particularly the novel, as a medium with rich civilization. Over the coming decades, the state they created (eventually named potential for innovative formal experimentation, and so they resisted the call the USSR) embarked on an unprecedented project to transform human beings for conventional ideological novels. Each of Tolstoy's best works is an innovative and remake the world. On December 26, 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed into formal experiment that creates an unprecedented, new type of novel. This 15 European and Asian countries. course will study how Tolstoy's writings both responded to and transcended their times by creating new novelistic forms and new truths within those forms. The Soviet project raises fundamental questions about political systems, economics, and human nature--questions that are a long way from being For native speakers and learners who have studied Russian for at least four answered. It also shaped modern history all over the world, including in the semesters, a half-credit course is available in which we will read excerpts from United States, which confronted the Soviet Union as its political and ideological Tolstoy's works (CGST 330). during the Cold War. In charting the USSR's trajectory from pariah Offering: Host nation after World War I to global superpower following World War II, we will Grading: OPT move beyond the cliched view of the Soviet Union as the Evil Empire. Instead, we Credits: 1.00 will examine the ways in which socialist modernity offered an alternative to its Gen Ed Area: HA-REES capitalist twin. Identical With: REES252, COL262, RULE252, WLIT252 Prereq: None In an effort to understand the contradictions of Soviet life leading up to and during the Cold War, the class will examine how the Soviets sought to rethink RUSS254 Nobel Laureates: The Politics of Literature issues of class struggle, family structure, education, gender dynamics, race, The course examines key cultural and socio-historical moments in the religion, sexuality, and patriotism. We will consider the theoretical writings of development of twentieth-century Russian literature by focusing on the prose Marx, Lenin, and Trotsky in addition to poetry and prose by Babel, Mayakovsky, and poetry of authors awarded the in Literature- (1933), Akhmatova, Platonov, Pasternak, Tsvetaeva, Berggolts, and Nabokov, among (1958), (1965), Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1970), others. Particular attention will be paid to underground cultures that arose in (1987), and Alexievich (2015). Additionally, the students response to the repression of free speech, ethnic discrimination, and the Gulag will read Lev Tolstoy, who rejected being nominated for the prize, as well as prison system. All readings are in the English translation. Vladimir Nabokov and Anna Akhmatova, who arguably merited the award Offering: Crosslisting but never received it. On the broader level, the class will ponder literature's Grading: OPT relevance for shaping public discourse on cultural policies, national identities, Credits: 1.00 and international relations. Gen Ed Area: SBS-REES Offering: Crosslisting Identical With: REES256, RULE256, WLIT246 Grading: OPT Prereq: None Credits: 1.00 Gen Ed Area: HA-REES RUSS260 Dostoevsky's BRAT'IA KARAMAZOVY Identical With: REES254, RULE254 A seminar devoted to close reading of the original text of Dostoevsky's 1879-80 Prereq: None novel. All students will be required to read the entire text in English, and each week specific passages will be read in Russian. In class we will analyze and RUSS255 Prague, Vienna, Sarajevo: 20th-Century Novels from Central and discuss the text in Russian. Students will give presentations about critical works Eastern Europe related to the novel and to Dostoevsky's work in general. Dostoevsky's novel This course is a survey of 20th-century prose fiction of Central and Eastern enters into a great dialogue with the political, historical, philosophical, and Europe, with an emphasis on the Czech novel. The novels we will read make religious discourses that were prevalent in 19th-century Russia. Study of the history come alive through the eyes of vividly individual characters. In Joseph novel entails learning the various languages of 19th-century Russian culture. Roth's RADETZKY MARCH, the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is Close reading of THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV in Russian will teach the genres viewed through the lens of a single heartbroken family; in Bohumil Hrabal's and styles that Dostoevsky weaves together in his great novel. Class will be I SERVED THE KING OF ENGLAND, the Czech experience in World War II and conducted in Russian. postwar Stalinization is embodied in the figure of a diminutive hotel waiter; Offering: Host 4 Russian (RUSS)

Grading: OPT Prereq: None Credits: 1.00 RUSS297 Music of Central Asia Gen Ed Area: HA-REES This course offers an introduction to the musical traditions of Central Asia, Identical With: REES260 including the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Prereq: None , Turkmenistan, and Azerbaijan, Mongolia, and the Xinjiang province RUSS263 Nabokov and Cultural Synthesis of China. The musical landscape of the region will be mapped through major This course will trace the development of Nabokov's art from its origins in performance repertoires, genres, styles, and instruments in the two sociocultural Russian literature by close readings of the motifs that spiral outward through his realms: the nomadic world and the world of sedentary-dwellers. The roles and (principally English-language) novels. status of musicians, and the aesthetics and meanings of sound will be explored Offering: Host in relation to wider aspects of culture and social life, and the relationship Grading: OPT between Islam and local spiritual beliefs. The dynamics of musical change Credits: 1.00 and the interplay of tradition and innovation in contemporary creativity will Gen Ed Area: HA-REES be considered in light of the region's political history and connections with Identical With: REES263, RULE263 contiguous geographical areas (East, South, and West Asia, Eastern Europe), Prereq: None the impact of socialist policies and nation-building in post-Soviet states, and RUSS267 Parody: Humor, Artistic Evolution, and Restoration of the Sacred the effects of globalization, migratory processes, and cultural revitalization Parody is a form of artistic expression that has played a major role in literary initiatives. history, largely through its power of critical revision. According to Russian Offering: Crosslisting formalist theorists of the early 20th century, parody is a driving force in literary Grading: A-F evolution. Linda Hutcheon's formulation, that parody is "repetition with critical Credits: 1.00 distance, which marks difference rather than similarity," provides perhaps the Gen Ed Area: HA-MUSC broadest and most fruitful point of departure. The course will consider various Identical With: MUSC297, REES297 definitions of parody offered by Russian and Western theorists. After examining Prereq: None parody as pure humor (Woody Allen, MAD magazine, Hot Fuzz) and parody RUSS301 Third-Year Russian I as a tool of literary evolution (Gogol and Dostoevsky), we will study the more This course focuses on the development of speaking and writing skills, and complicated case of "restorative parody," as exemplified in the medieval practice reviews and reinforces grammar. of parodia sacra (sacred parody), discussed by theorists Mikhail Bakhtin and Offering: Host Olga Freidenberg. We will look at the modern manifestation of parodia sacra in Grading: OPT Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar, and of restorative Credits: 1.00 parody in Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton. The course will also include discussion Gen Ed Area: HA-REES of legal issues raised by parody, in the case of 2 Live Crew / Roy Orbison (which Prereq: RUSS202 led to a 1994 Supreme Court decision, Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, in which RUSS302 Third-Year Russian II Justice David Souter offered his own definition of parody). At the end of the This course continues to develop advanced skills in speaking and writing. semester, students will present their own research or creative projects related to Offering: Host parody. Grading: OPT Offering: Host Credits: 1.00 Grading: OPT Gen Ed Area: HA-REES Credits: 1.00 Prereq: RUSS301 Gen Ed Area: HA-REES Identical With: REES267, RULE267 RUSS321 /Berlin: Socialist Modernity and the Transnational Avant- Prereq: None Garde The October Revolution of 1917 in Russia and the November Revolution of 1918 RUSS277 Gogol and His Legacy: Witches, Con Men, and Runaway Noses in Germany ushered in an era of imagining and building an anti-capitalist world (1809-1852), hailed as one of Russia's greatest and most distinctive based on the ideals of universal equality, freedom, and comradeship. Between writers, created a phantasmagorical world of devils and witches coexisting with World War I and World War II, Soviet Moscow and Weimar Berlin developed the gritty details of life in Ukraine, St. Petersburg, and the Russian provinces. into centers of the international leftist movement that was committed to Gogol's satirical observations delighted socially conscious contemporary critics, the cause of global proletarian revolution. While the revolutionary cause while his linguistic experimentation and subversion of the rules of logic inspired proved to be unattainable and costly, the period's artistic and intellectual later modernist writers. Roughly half of the course is devoted to major writers achievements, known as the avant-garde, offer an extraordinary archive of of the twentieth century. We will consider Gogol's interest in the demonic; his utopian experimentation across borders. complex identity as a bilingual writer claimed by both Ukraine and Russia as one of their greatest cultural figures; the influence of his formal and linguistic Focusing on Moscow and Berlin, this course maps the socialist modernist experimentation on later writers such as Dostoevsky, Nabokov, and Bulgakov, aesthetic in interwar Europe and provides a comparative review of the with his vision of the Devil visiting Soviet Moscow; and Gogol's reception by transnational circulation of leftist and reactionary ideas registered in a variety modern Russian and Western writers and critics. The course is conducted in of -isms: dadaism, expressionism, futurism, suprematism, and constructivism, English. as well as the New Objectivity, Bauhaus, and the practice of factography. The Offering: Host alignment of art and ideology will be explored through literature, art, and film Grading: OPT and will consider the entanglements of egalitarian aspirations with nationalist Credits: 1.00 agendas and emancipatory ideals with patriarchal residues. The course will also Gen Ed Area: HA-REES review the cultural production of Russian exiles living in Weimar Berlin and their Identical With: REES277, RULE277, WLIT242 conception of an "off-modern" path. The course will conclude with a discussion Russian (RUSS) 5

of the revolutionary avant-garde's legacy in the East Berlin underground and RUSS408 Senior Tutorial (downgraded thesis) post-Soviet Moscow. Downgraded Senior Thesis Tutorial - Project to be arranged in consultation with Offering: Host the tutor. Only enrolled in through the Honors Coordinator. Grading: OPT Offering: Host Credits: 1.00 Grading: A-F Gen Ed Area: SBS-CHUM RUSS409 Senior Thesis Tutorial Identical With: REES321, GRST221, RULE321, WLIT341 Topic to be arranged in consultation with the tutor. Prereq: None Offering: Host RUSS330 Reading Tolstoy in Russian (CLAC .50) Grading: OPT In this half-credit course, students will read excerpts from works by Lev Tolstoy RUSS410 Senior Thesis Tutorial in Russian. Class will be devoted both to translating the Russian texts and to Topic to be arranged in consultation with the tutor. discussing them in Russian. Non-native speakers should have studied Russian for Offering: Host at least four semesters. Grading: OPT Offering: Host Grading: Cr/U RUSS411 Group Tutorial, Undergraduate Credits: 0.50 Topic to be arranged in consultation with the tutor. Gen Ed Area: SBS-REES Offering: Host Identical With: CGST330, REES330 Grading: OPT Prereq: None RUSS412 Group Tutorial, Undergraduate RUSS340 Reading Theories Topic to be arranged in consultation with the tutor. In this survey of theories that have shaped the reading of literature and the Offering: Host analysis of culture, emphasis is on key concepts--language, identity, subjectivity, Grading: OPT gender, power, and knowledge--and on key figures and schools such as Marx, RUSS465 Education in the Field, Undergraduate Freud, Nietzsche, Saussure, Barthes, Gramsci, Benjamin, Althusser, Foucault, Students must consult with the department and class dean in advance Lacan, Deleuze, Jameson, Berlant, Moten, postmodernism, and U.S. feminism. of undertaking education in the field for approval of the nature of the Offering: Crosslisting responsibilities and method of evaluation. Grading: OPT Offering: Host Credits: 1.00 Grading: OPT Gen Ed Area: HA-ENGL RUSS466 Education in the Field, Undergraduate Identical With: ENGL295, COL339, CCIV393, CEAS340, RL&L290, GRST231, Students must consult with the department and class dean in advance RULE340, REES340 of undertaking education in the field for approval of the nature of the Prereq: None responsibilities and method of evaluation. RUSS350 Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry (CLAC .50) Offering: Host Taught in Russian, this course is dedicated to the reading of 20th-century Russian Grading: OPT poetry in the original (Blok, Mayakovsky, Mandesltam, Akhmatova, Brodsky, RUSS491 Teaching Apprentice Tutorial Prigov, etc.). The course is appropriate for native speakers, heritage speakers, The teaching apprentice program offers undergraduate students the opportunity advanced and intermediate learners (with the minimum of four semesters of to assist in teaching a faculty member's course for academic credit. Russian). Offering: Host Offering: Host Grading: OPT Grading: OPT Credits: 0.50 RUSS492 Teaching Apprentice Tutorial Gen Ed Area: SBS-REES The teaching apprentice program offers undergraduate students the opportunity Identical With: CGST350, REES350, RULE350 to assist in teaching a faculty member's course for academic credit. Prereq: RUSS202 Offering: Host Grading: OPT RUSS401 Individual Tutorial, Undergraduate Topic to be arranged in consultation with the tutor. Offering: Host Grading: OPT RUSS402 Individual Tutorial, Undergraduate Topic to be arranged in consultation with the tutor. Offering: Host Grading: OPT RUSS407 Senior Tutorial (downgraded thesis) Downgraded Senior Thesis Tutorial - Project to be arranged in consultation with the tutor. Only enrolled in through the Honors Coordinator. Offering: Host Grading: A-F